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Evaluating Options

This is the “critical thinking” portion of the blog.  Is there a new scientific study or a new article or trend?  How do they hold up?  What skills and approaches are necessary to evaluate ideas, treatment methods, modalities, etc.?  These are the types of questions considered in this category.

May 14 RachelEvaluating Options
Watch for Misleading Use of Data (Warning: Insufficient Data)

Watch for Misleading Use of Data

MedPageToday posted an article yesterday titled, Most COVID Patients Landing in Hospitals Aren’t Fully Vaccinated*.  (I think you’ll have to be a [free] member to read it in its entirety.) […]

February 22 RachelLiving Well, Evaluating Options
What We Know About the Covid-19 Vaccines (square title image)

What We Know About the Covid-19 Vaccines

There’s a lot of misinformation floating around about the Covid-19 vaccines.  I’m going to try to present some straight-up facts here.  If they seem lopsided…well, that’s just the nature of […]

January 8January 8 RachelLiving Well, Evaluating Options
Medical Quackery: Fact or Farce? (square title image)

Medical Quackery: Fact or Farce?

Let me begin by acknowledging that medical quackery really does occur.  The trope of the “snake oil salesman” exists because actual snake oil salesmen existed.  But who are the real […]

July 24 RachelEvaluating Options
How Much Can We Conclude from a Study? An Example Using Masks (square title image)

How Much Can We Conclude from a Study? An Example Using Masks

The mask/no mask controversy rages throughout the United States.  A key factor in the confusion is that multiple public health agencies have flip-flopped on their recommendations.  It’s difficult to know […]

July 19January 10 RachelEvaluating Options

Confused About Masks? It’s Not Your Fault.

  Confused about masks?  It isn’t your fault.  So are the experts — they just don’t want you to know it.  Weak claims are referenced as though they were airtight […]

March 12May 29 RachelEvaluating Options
Logical Fallacies from the Vaccine Machine

Logical Fallacies from the Vaccine Machine

Although it’s questionable whether they’re based on “representative samples,” it’s interesting that several studies of the language used by “pro-vaccination” and “anti-vaccination” individuals read something like this: “Another previous study […]

January 20January 8 RachelLiving Well, Evaluating Options
How Safe is Homebirth?

How Safe is Homebirth?

Do Your Research — Know the Risks! When the subject of birth crops up, inevitably so do the naysayers.  They suggest that homebirthers are uneducated and foolish, because surely if […]

December 13January 8 RachelEvaluating Options

The Truth About Evidence-Based Medicine

When I was working on the “healing systems” section of this website, I stumbled across Wikipedia’s article on naturopathy, which described it as using “an array of pseudoscientific practices,” and […]

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